I love my old 2002 Ford Escape. It's not too hard to work on most things, but coil pak time again :-( It seems you need these about every 75000 miles. No big deal, but they designed it so you have to pull the intake manifold to install the three coil packs on the back three cylinders of that 3.0 V6.
This is part 2 of a Swan 400 restoration I've been plunking around on for a while (another one of those "in small doses", hahahaha). I have the front panel cleaned and touched up...it was ROUGH. Playing with knobs (don't have the originals for it), got to install the meter and remount it to the chassis... Check out the "before" pic.
This is a Henry Radio Tempo One that I picked up sometime back from my friend Francis Drake as a long term project. I have to take some of these restorations in small doses. It was fairly clean, but needed some TLC. I stripped and repainted the cases, washed the front panel and knobs, recapped the radio and power supply, changed some out of spec resistors, replaced a couple of tubes and cleaned the sockets, aligned, and she's running. It looks and works pretty good for a 50+ year old radio. Now to make room in Studio A to get it connected and online!
This is a Swan 400 from a SK friend. It was pretty rough, very dirty, looked to have been wet or stored in a damp place. Notes inside suggest that it was last on the air around 1995. So far, I've cleaned (not polished) the chassis, removed the crud / oxidation from the crystals, cleaned the crystal sockets, cleaned the tube pins and tested them, serviced the tube sockets, repaired a rotary switch, sanded and repainted the rf cage cover, and located a few parts online. I'm trying to keep it as original as possible, we'll see how this goes....
